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There are "no arrangements" for American leader Donald Trump to confer with Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a administration representative has declared.

Recently the US president said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the Ukraine conflict.

A initial discussion between America's top diplomat Marco Rubio and his opposite number Foreign Minister Lavrov was due to be held this week - but the White House said the two had had a "productive" call and that a meeting was no longer "required".

The administration withheld any more details on why the talks had been postponed.

Background Context

The US president had raised the possibility of a Hungarian meeting over the phone with Putin, a day before hosting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Some reports indicated his talks with the Ukrainian leader had been a "shouting match", with sources indicating Trump had pressured him to cede large areas of eastern Ukraine as part of a settlement with Russia.

Nevertheless, on this week the American president endorsed a truce plan endorsed by Ukraine and European leaders to halt the war on the current front line.

"Leave it as is in its current state," he stated.

Moscow has consistently objected against freezing the present battle positions.

Moscow was solely focused on "long-term, sustainable peace", Russia's foreign minister commented on Tuesday, implying that pausing conflict would only amount to a brief pause.

Negotiating Stances

The "fundamental issues" of the hostilities required resolution, Lavrov stated, using Kremlin shorthand for a series of maximalist demands that include the acknowledgment of complete Moscow control over the eastern region as well as the military reduction of the country – a impossible condition for Ukraine and its EU supporters.

The Ukrainian president stated talks regarding the battle positions were the "commencement of dialogue" but that Russia was "doing everything" to evade negotiations.

He further commented the exclusive issue that could make Moscow "become engaged" was that of the supply of long-range weapons to the Ukrainian military.

Strategic Factors

Putin's spontaneous discussion with the US leader recently preceded speculation that the United States was preparing to send extended-range cruise missiles to Ukraine that could potentially strike deep into Russia.

The Ukrainian leader asserted it was the missile discussion that had pressured the Kremlin to enter into dialogue. The discussion regarding the missiles had emerged as a "valuable contribution" in international relations", he commented.